Sarah Lynn Lopez
2016-17 Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.S., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Contact
Office: Architecture Building, S-08
E-mail: sllopez@princeton.edu
Profile
Sarah Lopez is a built environment historian, as well as a migration scholar. Her current research focuses on the impact of migrant remittances—dollars earned in the U.S. and sent to families and communities in Mexico—on the architecture and landscape of rural Mexico and urban USA. By approaching architectural history within the context of migration, Lopez examines multiple sites across international borders, arguing that we must examine the spatial and built environment histories of discrete places simultaneously. Her book entitled, The Remittance Landscape: The Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2015. Broadly speaking, she teaches about U.S. cultural landscapes, the interface between migration, architecture, and cities, the use of interdisciplinary methods to study space and society, and world architectural history. She also teaches about how to incorporate ethnographic methods into built environment research.
